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MEKAWIRE has published 24 stories about Tesla since Feb 13, 2025; the latest is from Oct 1, 2026.

Data as of Oct 13, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

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Feb 13, 2025

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about Tesla

Who supplies humanoid robot joints? Japan's Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco, China's Leaderdrive and Germany's Schaeffler lead, while Tesla and Figure build their own
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss
Date
Sep 4, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure commits $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs to train its Helix robot model
Date
Sep 3, 2026
Type
Partnership
Tesla clears Fremont's Model S and X lines for Optimus and sends its first robots to an in-house academy as quarterly capex jumps to $5.8 billion
Date
Jul 22, 2026
Type
Business
Figure puts its F.03 humanoid on BMW's Spartanburg floor after a 24-fold production ramp and a first Brookfield-linked retail deal
Date
Jun 30, 2026
Type
Business
Agility Robotics agrees to go public through Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money value, with Foxconn leading a $200 million PIPE
Date
Jun 24, 2026
Type
M&A
Korea's AI robot alliance reaches 280 members in its first year, with shipyard and refinery humanoids aimed at 2027 and 2028
Date
May 29, 2026
Type
Industry
1X opens a 58,000-square-foot NEO factory in Hayward with capacity for 10,000 home humanoids a year and a goal of 100,000 by 2027
Date
Apr 30, 2026
Type
Business
Tesla will retire Model S and X lines in Fremont for an Optimus line designed for 1 million robots a year, and plans a 10 million-unit line in Texas
Date
Apr 22, 2026
Type
Business
AgiBot rolls out its 10,000th humanoid robot, doubling its fleet in 112 days
Date
Mar 30, 2026
Type
Business
Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes
Date
Mar 12, 2026
Type
Funding
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre
Date
Feb 27, 2026
Type
Business
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo
Date
Feb 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Tesla sets end-2026 start for its first Optimus line and a 1 million-robot capacity goal as car profits shrink
Date
Jan 28, 2026
Type
Business
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
Figure retires Figure 02 after an 11-month BMW run tied to 30,000 cars, handing the job to Figure 03 and a 12,000-a-year BotQ line
Date
Nov 19, 2025
Type
Product
Tesla shareholders approve Musk award that pays out only if Tesla delivers 1 million robots or hits other operating goals alongside a market value of up to $8.5 trillion
Date
Nov 6, 2025
Type
Business
XPeng unveils a next-generation IRON humanoid with 82 degrees of freedom and sets end-2026 for mass production
Date
Nov 5, 2025
Type
Product
Unitree unveils the H2, a 182 cm humanoid with 31 joints and a bionic face, now listed at US$29,900
Date
Oct 20, 2025
Type
Product
Figure raises more than $1 billion in Parkway-led Series C at a $39 billion valuation, 15 times its 2024 price
Date
Sep 16, 2025
Type
Funding
NVIDIA puts a Blackwell brain inside robots with the $3,499 Jetson Thor as Figure, Agility and Boston Dynamics sign on
Date
Aug 25, 2025
Type
Product
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028
Date
Apr 10, 2025
Type
Policy
Apptronik raises US$350 million Series A led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with Google joining, to scale its Apollo humanoid
Date
Feb 13, 2025
Type
Funding

Headline	Date	Type
Who supplies humanoid robot joints? Japan's Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco, China's Leaderdrive and Germany's Schaeffler lead, while Tesla and Figure build their own	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss	Sep 4, 2026	Funding
Figure commits $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs to train its Helix robot model	Sep 3, 2026	Partnership
Tesla clears Fremont's Model S and X lines for Optimus and sends its first robots to an in-house academy as quarterly capex jumps to $5.8 billion	Jul 22, 2026	Business
Figure puts its F.03 humanoid on BMW's Spartanburg floor after a 24-fold production ramp and a first Brookfield-linked retail deal	Jun 30, 2026	Business
Agility Robotics agrees to go public through Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money value, with Foxconn leading a $200 million PIPE	Jun 24, 2026	M&A
Korea's AI robot alliance reaches 280 members in its first year, with shipyard and refinery humanoids aimed at 2027 and 2028	May 29, 2026	Industry
1X opens a 58,000-square-foot NEO factory in Hayward with capacity for 10,000 home humanoids a year and a goal of 100,000 by 2027	Apr 30, 2026	Business
Tesla will retire Model S and X lines in Fremont for an Optimus line designed for 1 million robots a year, and plans a 10 million-unit line in Texas	Apr 22, 2026	Business
AgiBot rolls out its 10,000th humanoid robot, doubling its fleet in 112 days	Mar 30, 2026	Business
Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes	Mar 12, 2026	Funding
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake	Mar 11, 2026	Funding
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre	Feb 27, 2026	Business
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo	Feb 11, 2026	Funding
Tesla sets end-2026 start for its first Optimus line and a 1 million-robot capacity goal as car profits shrink	Jan 28, 2026	Business
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
Figure retires Figure 02 after an 11-month BMW run tied to 30,000 cars, handing the job to Figure 03 and a 12,000-a-year BotQ line	Nov 19, 2025	Product
Tesla shareholders approve Musk award that pays out only if Tesla delivers 1 million robots or hits other operating goals alongside a market value of up to $8.5 trillion	Nov 6, 2025	Business
XPeng unveils a next-generation IRON humanoid with 82 degrees of freedom and sets end-2026 for mass production	Nov 5, 2025	Product
Unitree unveils the H2, a 182 cm humanoid with 31 joints and a bionic face, now listed at US$29,900	Oct 20, 2025	Product
Figure raises more than $1 billion in Parkway-led Series C at a $39 billion valuation, 15 times its 2024 price	Sep 16, 2025	Funding
NVIDIA puts a Blackwell brain inside robots with the $3,499 Jetson Thor as Figure, Agility and Boston Dynamics sign on	Aug 25, 2025	Product
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028	Apr 10, 2025	Policy
Apptronik raises US$350 million Series A led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with Google joining, to scale its Apollo humanoid	Feb 13, 2025	Funding

Data as of Oct 13, 2026

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